Friday, November 28, 2008

On Googling Myself (Required 7)

It took google approximately .23 seconds to compile 936,000 hits of the name "Phillip Harman", with options to try modifications with Philip or Harmon. There are lots of links to weblogs, and proffessional sites like linkedin or spoke.com. None of these sites are mine, though I do have a linkedin account. It is extremely probable that I am related to some of these people- an example: Phillip Harman from Indiana located on source.com (I have extended family I have never met out in that part of the country). There was also one site that blogged the history of the Harman/ Harmon name from 1776 when it came from Germany- I am not sure these people are related because they settled in Pa and I do not know of any relatives from Pa. All things considered, this would indicate that my name is full of googlegangers.
The opinion of me on the internet would be pretty proffesional because most of the sites are for job searching or set up by my googlegangers to help people with some sort of job or to track their own job successes. It is beneficial to have a name with a good reputation online so that if potential employers try to look you up on google, they may not find you're personal sites online, but will see that everyone else who has your name is making a good impression. If 18million Phill Harman's have a good reputation, who is to say this one will be different?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thats pretty cool! I think its tight the possibility to find background or historical information about names related to yours..nyce